A teenager whose heartbreaking account of how her mother took her own life after she was accused of Munchausen-by-proxy, which was at the centre of a recent Netflix documentary, wept during opening arguments in a $200m jury trial in Florida on Thursday.
Maya Kowalski’s family allege that doctors at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital separated the then-nine-year-old from her family after accusing her of faking symptoms of complex regional pain syndrome.
